Jun 13, 2024 - Sale 2672

Sale 2672 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(WORLD.) Group of 6 eighteenth-century engraved double-hemispheric world maps. Vp, vd

Additional Details

- Thomas Jefferys. The World Agreable to the Latest Discoveries. Engraved folding map of the world with allegorical spandrel decoration. 11x17 inches sheet size, wide margins, lower left edge trimmed for binding; small repairs. London, circa 1760.

- Gilles and Dider Robert de Vaugondy; and Charles Francois Delamarche. Mappe-Monde. Engraved double-page map of the world with a decorative title cartouche. 11¼x18 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; minor foxing but generally fine. Paris, 1786.

- Noel Antoine Pluche. Mappemonde. Engraved folding map of the world. 6½x11½ inches sheet size, wide margins; minor offset, else fine. Paris, circa 1750.

- Louis Brion de la Tour; and Louis Charles Desnos. Mappe-Monde Dressee pour l'Etude de la Geographie. Engraved double-page map of the world including the "Sea of the West" and a separately engraved decorative border. 17x22½ inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; letterpress text panels pasted on; minor wear. Paris, 1778.

- Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy. Mappemonde ou Description du Globe Terrestre. Large engraved double-page map of the world with attractive spandrel decoration. 21x31 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; minor edge staining, lower center fold reinforced on verso. Paris, 1752.

- Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy. Mappemonde ou Description du Globe Terrestre. Large engraved gatefold map of the world with attractive spandrel decoration. 20x30½ inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color in outline; printer's defect at lower left, minor spotting. Paris, 1776.